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Ann Beattie arrived in NY young, observant and celebrated (as The New Yorker’s young fiction star) in another of the most engaging and creative eras of recent years. So does the protagonist of her strong new novella, Walks with Men.
It is 1980 in NEW YORK, and Jane, a valedictorian fresh out of Harvard, strikes a package with Neil, an intoxicating article writer two decades her senior. Both quickly become addicts, living collectively in a Chelsea brownstone, and Neil unveils the rules for a life well resided: If you take food home from a restaurant, don’t say it’s because you want leftovers for "your dog." Say that you would like the bones for "a friend would you autopsies." In the event that you can’t stand on your head (which is best), learn to do cartwheels. Have sex in airplane restrooms. Wear only raincoats manufactured in England. Neil’s certainties, Jane discovers, face mask his deceptions. Her true education begins.
"Among our time’s most vital masters of the brief form" (The Washington Post), Beattie brilliantly captures a time, a location and a style of proposal. Her speech is original and iconic.
